Evaluation and selection panels: Member Mercator selection committee, University of Bochum, Germany (2009); Member evaluation committee Strategic Research Areas, the Swedish Research Council (2009); Chairman Evaluation committee Research Institute BCN-BRAIN, Groningen, The Netherlands (2009-2010); Member of the international EMBL Monterotondo Unit Review Committtee (2012); Chairman of the International Evaluation committee National Initiative Brain and Cognition (Netherlands Research Council NWO; 2013).

Research interests

My research addresses the relationship between the architecture of neuronal networks and their function. The aim is to provide a functional anatomical description of the cortico-hippocampal system in rats and mice, with current emphasis on architectural differences between the different divisions of the parahippocampal-hippocampal system, in particular the intralaminar and interlaminar connectivity of the entorhinal cortex.

Earlier work pointed to the medial entorhinal cortex as an essential part of the navigational system and through my lasting collaborations with May-Britt and Edvard Moser, we discovered the grid cell. In a recent publication, I reported that the local circuit connecting putative grid cells is governed by inhibitory connectivity. My research further paved the way to the important concept about functional differentiation along the long axis of the hippocampal formation, and the functional difference between direct and indirect entorhinal-hippocampal connectivity, issues that are still at the center of my research into the development, adult organization, and disease-related changes of the hippocampal system.

My research group applies a variety of complex anatomical approaches, including advanced confocal fluorescent microscopy and electron microscopical approaches, combined with viral tracing and genetic targeting of specific identifiable neurons, and in vitro electrophysiology and voltage sensitive dye imaging. Currently, research is strongly linked to a collaborative network formed with the other groups at the KI/CNC (Edvard and May-Britt Moser, Yasser Roudi and Cliff Kentros), Asta Håberg (NTNU), Nachum Ulanovsky (Rehovot, Israel), and Toshio Iijima (Sendai, Japan).

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